Packing gland or collar.



Y To ailliwhom 'it mail concern:

' JULES Nuenen; or sEINE-ET-OISE, FRANCE y .f

Be it known thatl, .Tuin-s NAiosR, a citizen of the Republic of France, residing in Seineet-0ise, France, have invented lin-4 provements inr Packing Glands or Collars, of J .i lars d. Furthermore, as already stated, the Inmany rotary enginesLas well astur-k which the following is a specitication.

billes, as heretofore usually constructed -the cylindricalfspaces in which the steam or 'other motive `fluid employed acts upon the movable pistons or blades are closed at the -ends by piston-like bodies fitted with pucking segments. Instead of movinir in an y axial direction after the manner o? pistons in reciprocating engines .these piston-.like- 'bodies only rotate about-'their axes which generally correspond to the axes of the driving shafts which are supported by the said bodies. These piston-like bodies then, furnished 'with `packing segments, .simply Serve as cylinder ends or covers and ytheir i sole purpose is to insure duid tightness' of the cylindrical spaces in Vwhich the steam or other motive 'fluid adopted wor s.y The packing segments `with which they are fitted do not act in the same way as the packing Isegments ofl a reciprocating piston. In the first place they bear with more or less force.

against the wall of the cylindrical casingsin such a way as to be either held stationary or to only rotate at a very tow speed, relatively to the speed of the piston-like bodies. Secondly, they are forced with considerable pressure against those walls of the recesses in which they are held toward which the thrust o the motivetluid moves them. This result-s in considerable friction that reduces the mechanical etliciency of the engine.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a sectional elevation and Fig. 2 is an end view illustratinga heretofore pro osed packing arrangement. F im?) isasimi ar view to Fig.'1 showing another known and usual packing arrangement, and Fig. -t is a similar' view to Figs. 1 and 3 showinv packing glands or collars constructed am arranged according to this invention. a

If in lace of the packin segments there are pro ided packing col ars or glands formeil'I integral with the cylinder other disadvantages ensue.v Thusfor instance if a cylinder` a, Figs. 1 and 2, is rovided with internally arranged collars o' ttin 1n holding grooves formed therefor in tie rotary end closing member b, then when the latter rotates in the direction of the arrow f, Fig..

` PACKING `stam: oa COLLAR.

. Application nxedritay 25, 1910. l seria; No. 563,316.

vSpecicatioxi of Letters Patent.. patel'ited Aug'. I

2,*it-is. obvious that if such member' b' is forced longitudinally, as by a' thrust due to expansion, or. other strain, 'a considerablel amount of work is absorbed throug'lrthe eo friction of the holding grooves on thecol;`

packing colla'xsfd, instead lof being intgral with the cylinder a, are made up of Segments, whether: spring pressed or not, such a5 v be .influenced by the pressure of a thiidacti ing on one of their faces. in thefdirectionof. the arrow y. for instance, and their opposite faces will be thereby forced 'ugainstithe cor-' responding walls ot' the grooves in the` rotary member b so that this constructionalso 7S will result in such friction as to' absorb 'n' =considerableamount ofwork: v Now the object of this invention is to provide a packing gland or collar Ain 'which these disadvantagesareohviated.-" m

As shown in .l".ig. 4, the improvedgland or collarronsists of'a ring-'7l whichjmaybe formed-,in one or more parts, but-if'o more than onev part the several parts must 'be rigidly connected together so as to' constitutew Va closed ring having ches-ame canacity of resisting alteration of form as it it were formed in one piece only.

The external-'diameter ofthe ring Ii' is approximately'.the same as' the internal`90 diameter' of the cylinder a in which it tits, but in its periphery there are formed 'oneor more annular grooves z' of triangular or other suitable form, in which is orare placed a wire or wires -mof ductile metal such as soft iron, copper, lead, etc., adapted to form a fluid-tight joint between the cylinder a and the ring I1. and at the same time to set up between those two parts suflicient friction or adherence to prevent the rotation of the member from taking the said ring l1. along with it by friction on one of the end faces of the ring. On the other hand the degree of this friction or adherence of the ring m is such that under the strain of a powerful lateral thrust exceeding that of the steam or other fluid employed in the chamber packed by the. gland, such for instance as a thrust caused by expansion, the ring m. will move longitudinally in the diil" rection of the arrow y to an extent sutlicient to prevent the enormous resistancesthat l application in all cases wherea cy indrcal Wod-'l otherwise beset. up. It will thus be wif liod that the interposed Wirem has et of as it were Welding the ring lz, to the wall of thecylinder, in an intermittent manner. It is therefore correct to state that relatively to a thrust in the direction of rotation the ring l, acts as a Stationary collar or gland and consequently does not set np any friction in the grooves of the rotary member On the contrary, for

y those pressures exerted longitudinally, which are greater than the tlnnstof .the motive fluid, the ring /L acts as an ordinary segment packing ring and allows the necessary amount of endwise movement to provide for the expansion of the parts.

The improved gland or collar is particularl applicable to rotary steam or other mot re fluid engines such as compressors, pumps, turbines, etc.,y but it is capable of chamber containing .i fluid under pressure, is to be closed in a fluid-tight manner by a rotarypart. v t

-What I claim is:-

'1. A gland or collar for making a fluid tight joint between a rotary Apart and a stationary cylindrical part, comprising a ring adapted to be moved by the rotary part and formed with a peripheral groove, and a wire of duct-ile material located in the groove of said ring and bearing against the Inner face of said cylindrical art.

2. A gland or colar formaking a Huid tight joint bet/Ween a rotary. part and a stacylindrical part, wmprising'a ring adapted to be moved by the rotary part and formed with a peripheral groove of V shape, and `a wire ot' dur-.tile material located in the groove of vsaid ring and bearing against the inner face of said cylindricalpart.

3. A gland or'collar for making a fluid tight joint between arotary part and a stationary cylindrical part, comprising a ring engagm in a groove formed in the rotary part an formed with a peripheral groove,

and a wire of ductile material located in the e Y.

groove of said ring and bearing against the inner face of said cylindrical part.

. 4. A gland or collar for making a Huid tight jomt between a rotary part and a stationary cylindrical part, comprising a ring engaging in a groove formed in the rotary part and provided with a. peri heral groove of V shape, and a wire of uctile material located 1n the groove of said ring and bearing against the inner face of said cylindrical part. l t

5. A gland or collar for making a Huid tight joint between a. rotary part and a st ationary cylindrical part, comprising a fing adapted to be moved by the'rotary part formedwith a number of peripheral grooves, and wire of dnctile material located in the grooves' of said ring and bearing against the inner face of said cylindrical part.

G. A gland or collar for making a nid tight joint between a rotary partV and a stationary cylindrical part, comprising va.

ring adapted to be moved by the rotary part. 

